A major complaint about Google's Chrome web browser has been that so far, it is still not available on anything other than Windows. Google promised to deliver Chrome to Mac OS X and Linux as well, but as it turns out, this is a little harder than they anticipated, Ben Goodger, Google's Chrome interface lead, has explained in an email. It has also been revealed what toolkit the Linux version of Chrome will use: Gtk+.

Which application do you like and feel works better - Firefox on Windows or Firefox on Linux?

The words "firefox" and "better" need to be at least ten sentences apart

I have an absolute dislike for Firefox, whether it be on Windows, Linux, or the moon. Like Opera, and IE too now, it tries to be too much. A browser is a tool to show web pages. That's it. I don't need awesome bars. I don't need plugin frameworks. I don't need integrated RSS. I don't need themeing.

I am very peculiar when it comes to browsers. The features coming in Chrome 2 have me worried that Chrome too inevitably will move towards Firefox/Opera/IE.

The words "firefox" and "better" need to be at least ten sentences apart

Well yer, Firefox is not a fantastic app as they've treaded the line with IE familiarity.

However, it doesn't answer the question. Do you really think that we have ports of Firefox and applications like Open Office to Linux that are as good as those on Windows, and do you really think the cross-platform crap that has been hacked on has made them better applications?